The ‘Fearsome’ Law Firm List: What Makes A Fearsome Firm?
What gets a law firm onto the BTI Fearsome Firm List?
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Russell McVeagh expands private client offering with new special counsel
In a somewhat different move for a major law firm, Russell McVeagh have recruited a long-time private practice, self-employed lawyer who practised for eight years in her own practice in the private law arena, focused on trust, estate and relationship property issues. Priscilla Brown previously worked for both MinterEllisonRuddWatts and TGT Legal Russell McVeagh has
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Former Norton Rose Risk Lawyer Joins Linklaters to Set Up New Team
Law firms are increasingly moving into the risk advisory space and Linklaters have now moved to set up their own risk advisory practice by hiring Nortonn Rose’s Jane Caskey, former Global Head of their Risk Advisory practice. The Linklaters media release is below: Linklaters announces the appointment of Jane Caskey as Global Head of Risk
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Chapman Tripp’s Swanky New Offices Win Award
Chapman Tripp are delighted in their new offices in Wellington having won an ArchitectureNow award for the fitout of their new offices in the Deloitte building, Customhouse Quay. The new offices, over two levels, accommodate around 130 people in the building, providing a combination of reception, amenity and meeting spaces. The judges described the fitout
Capital Lawyers Come Out of Retirement To Battle Out-of-Control Wellington Council
The shambolic proceedings in Wellington’s endless earthquake strengthening and bicycle lane obsession has brought two retired lawyers to the forefront of a new activism to attempt to provide some measure of common sense to the capital’s parlous state. The much-vaunted pedestrianization of the ‘Golden Mile’, part of an attempt to get Wellington moving, but which
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The Legal Dealmaker-Turned-Investment Banker Silvana Schenone Makes 2023 Power List
Former MinterEllisonRuddWatts partner Silvana Schenone may no longer be at the legal coal face, but her role with leading New Zealand-owned investment banking group and wealth managers Jardens sees her play a key role in the company’s development in both the New Zealand and Australian markets and to enter the 2023 Power List of New
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Future Legal Pioneer: Isaac Heron Secures Rhodes Scholarship for Advanced Studies at Oxford
Academic brilliance has garnered New Zealand student Isaac Heron a Rhodes Scholarship where his law, philosophy and biotechnology create a brilliant future
Freshfields Associate Named a “Lawyer to Watch” By California Lawyers Association
Freshfields associate is a ‘lawyer to watch’
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Gen Z in Da House: Cranmer Comments
The ‘Confrontational’ Approach To Treaty Issues Thomas Cranmer* A younger, newer brand of politics is about to become a feature of the New Zealand Parliament. With special votes still being counted, the interregnum provides time for the country’s political parties to reflect on their election performance. For Labour, in particular, that is proving to be
Who IS Willie E Gary Lawyer, The Famed Litigator and Multi-Billion Dollar Success Story of Willie Gary
Who IS Willie E Gary the litigator and central figure in The Burial movie with Jamie Foxx